If you're fortunate to be able to arrange moorage, it's often payable a year in advance (often a better rate that way too)... depending where you are and size of boat this could be another several $K dip into the piggybank...

Ron

1984 Fast/Nicholson 345 "FastForward"

".. there is much you could do at sea with common sense.. and very little you could do without it.."
Capt G E Ericson (from "The Cruel Sea" by Nicholas Monsarrat)